All myths and legends have their basis in some facts, and I have always thought that it would be the same thing with pseudo-scientific creatures that are supposed to have been sighted or have been passed down in human folklore.

It is a very intriguing idea that in the relatively recent past, humanity may have shared the planet with other hominids who were more or less as intelligent as we were. It would have been a bit like having aliens in our midst, except that these intelligent creatures who were different from us did not come from space, but were just as much children of the planet Earth as we were.

And who knows, maybe some of these sundered strands of humanity achieved civilization way before us. I mean, most signs of civilization would be erased from the face of the earth relatively quick. But I am getting ahead of myself here with my fantasies.

TS Glassman, yes, let's ignore everything happening now and bury our heads in the past. Besides, I've now read about this story in 3 major publications, so it 'should be' and 'is' news. And finally, we didn't 'come from' this creature. We and it came from the same source, as the story makes clear.

I find it extremely interesting how anecdotal vestiges of these "othermen" have survived in our collective cultural memories, and eventually became the basis for authors like J.R.R. Tolkien to base their mythological races on. Part of the inexplicable attraction that these mythical humanoids have on us may reside in the fact that only a few tens of thousands of years ago, we coexisted with them.

On a darker note is the complete and utter domination of Sapiens Sapiens over all other subspecies of the hominid genera. Genetic data suggests that all living humans descend from a small population of a few thousand individuals living around 70.000 years ago. This group goes through some form type transformation, often called the Great Leap Forward, at around 50.000 years ago, where an increase in tool complexity signifies the arrival of behaviourably modern humans.

Archeological evidence suggests that this new species quickly spread throughout the entire globe, and colonized previously unreached continents like Australia. Some scientists have proposed that modern humans interbred and thus assimilated our cousins, but the absence of neaderthal genes in modern humans suggest that whatever interbreeding took place, its offspring did't prosper. In evolutionary terms it was therefore an exctinction event. We eventually outcompeted all of our cousins so drastically, that they only exist today as the provervial trolls, orchs or ogres of folk tale.

Seems to be ....interesting ....BUT why we keep getting such STORIES ...after some time as we have JUST concluded ....last one as just a STORY !!! .......seems we keep enjoying stories about UFOs & YETIs ...& End of the WORLD ....!!!!!

Very interesting, so we have distant cousins! We really know very little about our own past. Genetics, Chemistry, Geology, Physics, Metereology and other Natural sciences are revolutionizing Anthropology

In evolutionary process there may be lot of changes occurred in homos-paces,that may be one step in which yeti type homos paces appeared on the earth.We are till in dark how human evolved, may be Yeti like homo-spaces is middle stage.

I thought the Earth was only about 5,000 years old and that the white people who founded the earth rode dinosaurs...psh, science is for those too weak to believe!

But seriously, this is an amazing discovery. I think we will find that the chain of human evolution is a lot more complicated than we even know now. The best and most beautiful part is that we weren't designed and that we are the result of an endless cycle of evolution. That is until the sun explodes or something....

This news is exhilirating! And not too long from now contact by extraterrestrial intelligence will be made known to the planet not by politicians, not by scientists, but by the churches. It pleases me so that our world gets "curiouser and curiouser".

I wish President Obama had the time to find out where the remains of the beings from the Roswell crash in 1947 are being secreted. Now there would be some DNA investigation!

It's a shame that there are so many mysteries about our ancestors and those with which they inhabited the Earth that we may never know. Did Yeti here get frozen off by one of the ice ages? Or did we kill him off along with Neanderthal men and the other hominids? I wouldn't put it past us - just look what happened to the macrofauna when Homo Sapiens arrived in Australia...

This find shows how little we know of human history and evolution .We had more than one extinct cousin is good news in so far as it high lights the paucity of our knowledge of our past .It also shows that there is some merit in the tales we have inherited from our ancestors , so perhaps we should have a fresh look at ancient mythology and the so called myths .